Sri Aurobindo was writing a different kind of poetry which demanded not only new modes of expression, native to the spirit, but also a certain sensitivity, on part of the reader a degree of spiritual awareness of the sense and the sound it carries; it demanded a special audience born of spiritual maturity. The child pressing its finger on the cheek of the mother is a delicate simile, of course very apt also with the familial warmth and intimacy, but it has the remarkable power to make an opening in the sombre Vast, as much as making step the household into cosmic dimensions. Such is the supremacy of the new poetry!

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